Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
25th Meeting, May 5, 2004 –
Approved September 8, 2004
Present: R. Cerrato (chair), A.
Feldman, M. Barnhart, A. Phillips, C. Green-Forde, C.
Marrone, A. Hasloecher, T.
Weinacht, J. Lochhead, T. Weinacht, S. Sternglanz, E.
Kaplan (secretary), E. Lindquist
(observer)
I Committee Business
Champagne in hand, the Committee
thankfully toasted the conclusion of a busy and productive academic year.
The minutes of April 28th were
approved
Annual Report
The draft of the annual report to
the Arts and Sciences Senate was discussed. Barnhart had submitted additional
language to the report, in part stating that “The Committee regards as top
priority the unusual and thus far entirely unsatisfactory procedures that have
arisen as a result of SUNY-GER curriculum issues…. The current situation, in
the Committee’s view, is unacceptable and is in urgent need of review.” The Committee heartily endorsed including
strong language about its experiences with SUNY-GER in the annual report.
Kaplan will add additional information from the last few meetings. Cerrato will
then edit the report for submission to the Senate.
SUNY-GER
The Committee reviewed a note from
Mark Aronoff to Elaine Kaplan, requesting clarification about what information
the Committee needed from SUNY System Administration and questioning the
submission of three courses for American History. Kaplan was asked to remind
him that we were still waiting for responses for many courses that were
submitted on November 6, 2003 as well as a response to our American History
proposal that was submitted in December. The delay has already resulted in
access issues for students, confusion for academic advisors and students, and
may jeopardize our publication of an accurate and timely 2005-2007
Undergraduate Bulletin.
In response to Aronoff’s question
about whether the title of the proposed course ECO 316
U.S. Class Structure and its
Implications was appropriate for the SUNY-GER American History requirement, the
Committee again reviewed the new course proposal that had been submitted by the
Economics Department. The Committee believes that the course has significant
historical content and should qualify for American History status, but will
propose a less controversial title-- The History of U.S. Class Structure and
its Economic Implications—to the department.
Information has been disseminated
from the CEAS Dean’s Office and the Registrar’s Office at stating that the
curriculum and scheduling matters for the
Business; e.g. Senate
representation, curriculum, academic standing, academic judiciary,
promotion and tenure, will become
part of the portfolio of Arts and Sciences Senate, but the administrative
functions; e.g. scheduling, will be handled within the new
II Routine Administrative Matters
The Philosophy Department would
like the proposed 101 number for its new course Historical Introduction to
Western Philosophy instead of PHI 112 as suggested by the Committee.
III Old Business
Specializations:
In light of the new guidelines for
specializations that were approved earlier in the semester, the Committee
reviewed the request for an MTD specialization in social sciences. While we
felt that this idea was a sound one, there was not enough information to act on
this as a proposal. Kaplan will write to Robert Hoberman with the request that
he submit this as a formal proposal to the Committee.
New Course Proposals from Asian and
Asian American Studies:
The Committee approved the new
courses AAS 110-G Appreciating Indian Music and AAS 327 Great Epics of India:
Ramayana and Mahabharata. Kaplan was asked to let the department know that
there was still some concern about the level of the course. The proposed course AAS 330 Language and
Society in
Course Renumbering for Korean
Studies and Japanese Studies Courses:
Courses in India Studies and in
Chinese Studies were incorporated within the AAS designator last fall. Now the
department is ready for the next step of its course numbering project and has
requested the renumbering of many Korean Studies and Japanese Studies courses.
The renumbering system was approved
and the changes to the courses and designators will become effective in the
Spring 05 semester.
24th Meeting, April 28, 2004—Approved on May 5,
2004
Present: J. Lochhead (chair), E. Kaplan
(secretary), M. Barnhart, C.
Green-Forde, T. Weinacht, M. Read, C. Marrone, A. Phillips, A. Feldman,
S. Sternglanz, A Hasloecher, E. Lindquist (observer)
The
minutes of April 21, 2004 were approved.
Kaplan
distributed copies of the draft of the 2003-2004 Annual Report for Committee
review and discussion at next week’s meeting.
The final actions of the committee will be added to the report after the
last meeting. It will then be forwarded
to the Senate office.
SUNY-GER:
Kaplan
reported that, in a meeting earlier that day, Mark Aronoff had told Dean Staros
that he would call Patricia Pietrapaolo to remind her that the campus was still
waiting for approval of approximately 100 courses submitted for the SUNY-GER
requirement and that we had also not heard anything about our proposal for the
SUNY-GER American History category.
It was
suggested that the annual report state that we are concerned with the lengthy
response time from SUNY System Administration.
The process of submitting information to SUNY must be expedient and
transparent. The report should also
remind the Senate that we agreed to do this as a one year experiment and that
the one year ends in November.
II Routine Administrative Matters:
Biology:
Changes to
the prerequisites for BIO 311 Techniques in Molecular and Cellular Biology were
approved. The prerequisites were changed
from:
CHE 132 or
142; BIO 202 and 203; MAT 125 or higher or AMS 151; permission of instructor
To:
CHE 132 or
142; BIO 202; MAT 125 or higher or AMS 151.
III Old Business
New course proposals from Asian and
Asian American Studies
AAS 110-G Appreciating Indian Music
The
Department agreed that the course should be offered as a 100 level DEC G
course. The Committee suggested further
grammatical editing of the course description.
The Committee also requested a new syllabus for the course as it will be
taught on the 100 level. Kaplan will
work on this and send it to Professor Sridhar for his review.
AAS 326-G Indian Mythology
The
Department agreed to the Committee’s suggestions for prerequisites and
shortened course description. The course
was approved.
AAS 327-G Great Epics of
Correspondence
received from Professor Sridhar stated that the grading scheme for the course
would consist of a midterm exam (25% of the grade); a final exam (50% of the
grade) and a term paper (25% of the grade).
But the revised syllabus submitted by the instructor did not agree with
this scheme. In addition, the course
syllabus still included comparison with Homeric epics, which the Department had
agreed to eliminate.
Kaplan
will correspond again with Professor Sridhar.
AAS 330-F Language and Society in
Since this
course is upper-division, the Committee wants to see mandatory
prerequisites. It was suggested that the
proposed advisory prerequisite of AAS 201 or LIN 101 be mandatory. If the course will eventually be crosslisted
with a course in the Linguistics Department, the prerequisites will need to be
the identical for both designators.
Kaplan
will correspond again with Professor Sridhar.
IV
New Business
New course proposal PHI 101
Historical Introduction to Western Philosophy
The
Committee was pleased with this new proposal.
Two small suggestions were made.
For consistency, the course number should be 112, since Introduction to
Eastern Philosophy is PHI 111. Also for
consistency, “Historical” could be removed from the title so that PHI 111 would
be Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and PHI 112 would be Introduction to
Western Philosophy.
23rd Meeting, April 21, 2004—Approved 4/28/04
Present: R. Cerrato (chair), M. Barnhart, E. Kaplan
(secretary), C. Green-Forde, T. Weinacht, J. Lochhead, M. Read, C. Marrone, A.
Phillips. E. Lindquist (observer)
The
minutes of April 14, 2004 were approved.
SUNY-GER:
Kaplan
reported that she had revised the Course Addition Reporting Template forms for
five of the special topics courses that had been sent to ACGE by Patricia
Pietrapaolo in the SUNY Provost’s office.
In addition to including learning outcomes within the course
descriptions, she provided course descriptions for sample topics offered in the
past few semesters or planned topics for the upcoming semesters. The forms have been submitted electronically
to Mark Aronoff for transmittal to ACGE.
The
Committee would like to review the status of the approximately 200 course
submissions to SUNY since November 2003.
Kaplan will prepare a report for review at the Committee’s next meeting.
II Routine Administrative Matters:
Sociology:
Request
from instructor and department to add “permission of instructor” to SOC 268
Theory and Practice in Student Leadership.
The course is specifically designed for students who are interested in
serving in campus leadership positions.
The Committee agreed, provided that the course description is emended to
include a statement that informs students about the nature of the course.
Social Studies Education:
The course
SSE 487 Independent Research in Social Studies Education was created.
III Old Business:
New course proposals from Asian and
Asian American Studies:
The four
new course proposals-- Appreciating Indian Music, Indian Mythology, Great Epics
of India, and Language and Society in
Kaplan
will write to the department with a list of the questions and
inconsistencies. Once the issues are
resolved, the Committee would like a revised new course proposal form for each
course.
22nd Meeting, April 14, 2004—Approved April 21,
2004
Present: R. Cerrato (chair), S. Sternglanz, M.
Barnhart, E. Kaplan (secretary), C. Green-Forde, A. Feldman, T. Weinacht, J.
Lochhead, M. Read, C. Marrone, A. Phillips
The
minutes of March 24th were approved.
II Routine Administrative Matters
Physics:
Change in
prerequisites for PHY 452 Lasers from:
PHY 308 or
ESG 333, PHY 300; both with grades of C or higher
To:
C or
higher in PHY 251 and PHY 300
III Old Business
SUNY General Education Requirement
In an
e-mail to Cerrato and Kaplan, Norman Goodman, who is a member of the SUNY
Advisory Council on General Education, stated that several topics courses
submitted by the campus for SUNY-GER approval had been sent by the SUNY
Provost’s office to ACGE because the SUNY provost’s office did not believe that
there was adequate information about how these courses would meet the relevant
learning objectives of the proposed SUNY-GER categories.
Kaplan
reworked the “Course Addition Reporting Template” forms for the courses in
question (AAS 211, AAS 212, AAS 391, AAS 392, and RLS 390) and the committee
discussed these. It was thought that,
for some of the courses, it would be helpful to use language that is more
similar to the language used in the “Guidelines for the Approval of State
University General Education Requirement Courses” document. Kaplan will work on the forms again and will
then send them to Mark Aronoff.
Restoration of DEC K
The
Undergraduate Council and the University Senate Executive Committee both
approved the restoration of DEC Category K.
Kaplan was asked to send the final list of the disposition of the
courses that were moved from other DEC categories into DEC K. The list is attached to these minutes.
Kaplan had
been directed to make sure that the courses offered for Fall 04 that fall into
the restored DEC K category are correctly designated in the official class
schedule. This was done; however a
glitch in the SOLAR search messaging system has occurred. Students who have
registered for these courses for spring 04 or summer 04 are getting erroneous
messages. This is a significant problem
that will be immediately brought to the attention of the Registrar’s office and
DoIT.
IV New Business
Freshman orientation courses
SBU 101
Introduction to Stony Brook is the one-credit S/U graded course that freshmen
and transfer students are strongly encouraged to take during their first
semester at the university. With the
advent of the Undergraduate College system, the course has been undergoing
significant revision for fall 04. The
intent is to propose that the courses, which will now have six different
designators for the six different colleges, be mandatory for all incoming
freshmen.
If the
course is mandatory, will students who receive a U grade be required to take it
again the following year? If so, these
students will no longer be connected to the colleges, so how will this
work? Is it appropriate to require a
course that is planned to be taught by new student affairs professionals, with
little or no faculty input? If so, will
there be enough student affairs
professionals to teach the 130 necessary sections? Since the course is an academic requirement
for CEAS students as well as CAS and MSRC students, then surely both the CEAS
CTPC and the A and S Undergraduate Curriculum Committee must review the proposal.
The
proposal is still in progress and will be brought back to the Undergraduate
Council. It is expected that the
Committee will be receiving this proposal later in the spring semester.
New course proposals from Asian and
Asian American Studies.
The Committee discussed the proposal for the proposed new course
Appreciating Indian Music. This course
had been taught a few times as MUS 311-J Topics in Non Western Music. The department has now plans to offer the
course regularly and has suggested a 200 level number and Category D
designation.
Members stated that the course seemed too focused to qualify for
DEC-D credit. Some compared it to MUS
105-G and MUS 106-G, which study the music of different world regions. The group settled on the DEC-G designation as
the best choice for the course.
Our member from the music department strongly believes that
students should have some prior training in music before they study ragas. The current upper-division status of the
course makes sense and the current prerequisites (MUS 101, 105, 106, 119 or
130) are appropriate.
The Committee suggested that the AAS department contact the music
department to ask if the course could be crosslisted with a music course. Since the music department already offers a
series of popular non-major DEC courses, this is a logical step.
Kaplan will write to Professor Sridhar with these comments and
suggestions. If Professor Sharma, the
instructor of the proposed course is agreeable, Professor Sridhar should send
her CV to the music department for their review.
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K courses in old
bulletins |
03-05 bulletin |
Disposition 4/04 |
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AFH/EGL 249
African-American Lit in 19th & 20th C |
DEC G |
moved back to K |
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AFH/PHI 379
Philosophy of Race |
DEC G |
moved back to K |
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AFS 300 Blacks in the
City |
DEC F |
moved back to K |
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AFS 310 American
Attitudes toward Race |
DEC F |
moved back to K |
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AFS 360
African-American Social Commentary |
DEC F |
moved back to K |
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EGL 226 20th Century
American Lit |
DEC G |
leave in G |
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EGL 369 Topics in
Ethnic Studies |
DEC G |
leave in G |
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HIS/WST 374 Hist.
Perspectives on Gender Orienta. |
DEC F |
leave in F until
course is revised |
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HIS 361 American
History/American Film |
DEC F |
moved back to K |
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HIS 362 Making Peace
with the Sixties |
DEC F |
moved back to K |
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HUI/EGL 333 The Italian-American Experience in Lit |
DEC G |
moved back to K |
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HUI/WST 237 Images of
Italian-American Women |
DEC G |
moved back to K |
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HUI 338 Images of
Italian-Americans in Film |
DEC G |
moved back to K |
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LIN/AAS 250 Lang and
Cultures of Asian Americans |
DEC F |
moved back to K |
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LIN 307
Sociolinguistics |
DEC F |
moved back to K |
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MUS 310 Music and
Culture in the 1960's |
DEC G |
moved back to K |
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PHI 310 American
Philosophy |
DEC G |
moved back to K |
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POL/WST 330 Gender
Issues in the Law |
DEC F |
moved back to K |
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POL/WST 347 Women and
Politics |
DEC F |
moved back to K |
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SOC/WST 247 Sociology
of Gender |
DEC F |
moved back to K |
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SOC 310 Ethnic
Relations |
DEC F |
moved back to K |
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SOC 323 Urban Society |
DEC F |
moved back to K |
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SOC/WST 371 Gender
and Work |
DEC F |
moved back to K |
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SSI 345 Parental
Roles in a Pluralistic Society |
DEC F |
moved back to K (now
CFS 345) |